March 25, 2001, Sunday

To the Editor: In his review of ''The Circus Fire,'' by Stewart O'Nan (July 2), Edward Hoagland says that ''there are a number of estimable circus books by authors like John Culhane, Bill Ballantine and John and Alice Durant, but none until now...

To the Editor: I have to offer a small but important correction to Edward Hoagland's observation in his review of Stewart O'Nan's ''Circus Fire'' (July 2) that those trapped in the tent might have saved themselves simply by ''lifting the canvas...

April 11, 1999, Sunday

When I worked in Vermont back in 1960, Bennington College had a reputation for being avant-garde (About Men: "The View From 61," by Edward Hoagland, Nov. 27). I never thought the school would generate such gloom in one of its teachers. I want to tell...

December 18, 1994, Sunday

WHEN I TELL PEOPLE THAT I went to Bennington College, it often happens that, whether they've been there or not, they want to tell me a story about it. Sometimes they tell me about the article they read in Esquire some 20 years ago on how the faculty...

October 4, 1992, Sunday

To the Editor: Free speech did indeed win out at Bennington College, as Elizabeth Coleman, its president, says (letter, June 25). But she accuses me of a "rush to judge" whether it would in my June 15 Op-Ed article.